REIDS OF GAWLER

John and his wife, Jane, emigrated in 1839 with their six children on the ship Orleana and were the first settlers at Gawler S.A. As part of the consortium that founded the town of Gawler, they built their farm and homestead, Clonlea, in an area just inside the entrance of what is now called Clonlea Park... Gawler became a magnet for travellers, settlers, and explorers who all enjoyed the hospitalities of the Reid family but when it all became too much, John Reid financed a German settler, Mr Scheibner, to build the "Old Spot" tavern. He also paid the clergyman's passage out and started the first school.